People of 'bad character' can enter Australia due to medivac bill: Dutton

19/02/2019|13min

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says some of the asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru rejected by the US ‘could be eligible’ to come to Australia after the medivac bill passed parliament.
America has barred 265 asylum seekers from being able to enter the US under its ‘extreme vetting’ process.
At least 456 asylum seekers in offshore protection have been accepted under the deal first agreed upon by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and former President Barack Obama in 2016.
Mr Dutton told Sky News the medivac bill that Labor endorsed will see ‘people of bad character,' some of whom are part of the cohort rejected by the US, being able to enter Australia.
The medivac bill is designed to give doctors a greater say over whether asylum seekers in offshore detention centres can be flown to Australia for medical treatment, though still allows the Home Affairs minister to reject transfers on security grounds.